A woman took off her gemstone ring before immersing in a ritual bath (mikveh) on Pilgrimage Road in Jerusalem and apparently dropped it and never found it. That was about 2,000 years ago. Now the ring has been recovered by archeologists excavating the ancient mikveh in the City of David...

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Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has begun production on wings that are invisible to radar for the Lockheed F-35 stealth fighter, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. “The construction of the new production line significantly upgrades IAI’s technological capabilities, automation and robotics, and will enable the company to establish itself as a...

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Israel wouldn’t have earned its reputation as the Startup Nation if some of the thousands of companies that have come out of this small country hadn’t earned big bucks for their investors. How big? Jerusalem-based Mobileye currently holds the title for the most lucrative acquisition of an Israeli company: $15.3...

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The IDF announced that it has destroyed all of the Hezbollah terror tunnels originating from the Lebanese village of Kafr Kila, and released video footage showing that at least one of the tunnels originated in Lebanon, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. In addition to blowing up the tunnels they...

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Among the 177 cadets who were awarded their wings from the Israeli Air Force is Lieutenant Y, the first Ethiopian to become a combat pilot, Ynet reported Wednesday. Lt. Y, whose full name remains secret like all combat pilots, said, “Being a member of the air squadrons and serving in one of the...

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Satellite images released by an Israeli company show that a Hezbollah facility for storing Fajr-5 missiles was destroyed by overnight airstrikes Tuesday, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The missile storehouse was located on an Iranian base in Syria, approximately 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the border with Israel. The Fajr-5 missiles...

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Chef Einat Admony is familiar with the stress of opening a new restaurant, having opened 13 restaurants throughout her career. But the days leading up to the reopening of her latest eatery, Balaboosta, felt more intense than usual. ”We had a short amount of time to pull everything together. But...

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Airstrikes, attributed to Israel, targeted some officials of Hezbollah, as well as a shipment of GPS components that would make the terrorist group’s arsenal more accurate, Ynet reported Wednesday. Based on a report in Newsweek citing an unnamed senior Israeli military officer, Ynet reported that there were several airstrikes around the Damascus airport...

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Israeli superstar Gal Gadot got a bissel farklempt – a little choked up, as they say in Yiddish – reporting on the wrap-up of filming “Wonder Woman 1984,” the sequel to her 2017 blockbuster hit “Wonder Woman.” “We did it. Again!! And as much as the first time shooting Wonder...

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Once upon a time, Israel’s most famous export was Jaffa oranges. Fast-forward a good few years, and Israel’s turned into something much juicier – Startup Nation. Now, in a delicious twist of innovation, these two opposite ends of the country’s claim to fame are coming together to produce a much...

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